11:47 According to eyewitnesses, the shells of Ukrainian militants continue to fall in Kirov (Svoboda Square) and in Kuibyshev (microdistrict Gornyak) of the city of Donetsk.
11:18 Shelling from the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was recorded in the following directions:
settlement Ceramic – settlement Novobakhmutovka: 4 NAR 80 mm were produced (without the use of aviation);
settlement Dyleevka – settlement Zaitsevo (Southern): 8 122 mm shells were fired.
10:22 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for August 20, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Kirovsky district:
– as a result of an explosion on a mine PFM “Petal”, a man born in 1955 was wounded.
As of 10:00 am on August 20, 46 cases of undermining civilians have already been registered in the Republic, incl. 2 children, on mines PFM “Petal”. One of the injured died in the hospital.
Information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the Ukrainian Armed Forces of cities of DPR:
settlement Gorlovka:
– st. Velikan, 39 – apartment building, damaged gas pipeline;
– st. Initiative, 12 – a private residential building.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
09:39 It is reported that Kodema settlement has completely passed under the control of the Joint Forces of Russia and LDPR.
09:32 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine on August 20:
In the areas of the settlements of Zvanovka and Paraskoviyivka of the Donetsk People’s Republic, more than two hundred personnel, two tanks and seven special vehicles were destroyed by high-precision air-launched missiles in the 3rd and 12th battalions of the 25th airborne brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Russian air defense systems destroyed six Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Vrubovka of the Luhansk People’s Republic, Novomikhailovka, Staromlynovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 267 aircraft, 148 helicopters, 1,776 unmanned aerial vehicles, 367 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4,354 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 809 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 3,320 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 4969 units of special military vehicles.
09:23 Fire was detected from the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of the settlement of Kurdyumovka – the settlement of Gorlovka: 5 shells of 155 mm caliber were fired.
09:15 This morning, a man born in 1955 was injured by the detonation of the Petal mine in the courtyard of his own house in the Kirovsky district.
08:37 According to the JCCC, over the past day, on August 19, in the city of Donetsk, 2 people died from shelling – a man and a woman born in 1949 and 1951 – residents of the Kirovsky district, the village of Lozovoe.
08:35 Shelling was recorded from the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the direction of the settlement Orlovka – settlement Yasinovataya: 3 shells of 152 mm caliber were fired.
08:26 The work of artillerymen of the 1st Army Corps of the DPR on enemy positions in the city of Avdiivka. Artillerymen during the special operation turned into snipers, each shell flies exactly into a trench or a dugout.
08:00 Shelling from the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recorded in the following directions:
settlement Kurdyumovka – settlement Zaitsevo (southern): 6 shells fired with a caliber of 122 mm.
settlement Friendship – settlement Gorlovka: 6 shells of 155 mm caliber were fired.
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